There were several on the Council who tried to live like Christians.

However, the Vandals tried for several decades to force their Arian beliefs on their North African Nicene subjects, exiling Nicene clergy, dissolving monasteries, and exercising heavy pressure on non-conforming Christians.

Though several configurations have been tried, particularly in the early experimental days of tank development, a standard, mature design configuration has since emerged to a generally accepted pattern.

While the rural upper class tried several times to finally expel the Jews, the financial interests of the authorities prevented this.

Ahmad Shah tried several more times to subjugate the Sikhs permanently, but failed.

Zurlauben tried several more times to disrupt the Allies forming on Tallard's side of the stream ; his front-line cavalry darting forward down the gentle slope towards the Nebel.

The arrival of troops on 16 December put a final end to the republican resistance without bloodshed, and 57 insurgents were tried ; 38 were condemned to deportation ( though several were pardoned in April ).

Throughout his term in office Kamral tried to establish a support base for the PDPA by introducing several changes.

The reforms he tried to promote found opposition from several parties, including his own, and he asserted several times the country was " ungovernable ".

Sanader tried to come back into HDZ in 2010, but was then ejected, and USKOK soon had him arrested on several corruption charges.

The self-declared Emperor of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bédel Bokassa ( Emperor Bokassa I ), was tried on October 24, 1986 for several cases of cannibalism although he was never convicted.

In the centuries that followed the completion of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, several shorter books tried to summarize or systematize its contents.

After she died, Young tried several jobs, and eventually moved in with friends John and Ruth Benedum and did odd jobs for them.

Khrushchev tried to revitalise the Central Committee by hosting several discussions on agriculture at the Central Committee plenums.

The Public Safety Department came under heavy criticism, from student groups, after several students protesting tuition increases tried to occupy the lobby of the Baruch College.

Toward the end of the ninth century, several emperors tried, but failed, to check the Fujiwara.

During the early 1980s, Cossiga attacked several times the antimafia judges and spoke in favour of judge Corrado Carnevale, a member of the Corte di Cassazione ( Italy's supreme court ) who had annulled numerous sentences against mafia leaders and was later tried for these actions.

The French Navy tried to stop the protest in several ways, including assaulting David McTaggart.

Hierax tried to defeat king Attalus I of Pergamum ( 241 – 197 BC ), but instead, the Hellenized cities united under Attalus's banner, and his armies inflicted several severe defeats upon them in about 232 B. C., forcing them to settle permanently and to confine themselves to the region to which they had already given their name.

Accounts vary on who first came up with the idea of the film, but Hawks and Saunders developed the story together and tried to sell it to several studios before First National agreed to produce the film.

However, later emperors such as Aurangazeb tried to establish complete Muslim dominance, and as a result several historical temples were destroyed during this period and taxes imposed on non-Muslims.

Early in the twentieth century, several chemists tried to make ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen.

After leaving school, Wyndham tried several careers including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, but mostly relied on an allowance from his family.

After completing his doctorate in 1921, Goebbels worked as a journalist and tried for several years to become a published author.

Many times I tried to reach you, but I never knew how.

According to Suetonius, Nero was annoyed at his mother being too watchful and tried three times to poison Agrippina, but she took the antidotes in time and survived.

The NHL has, at various times, tried to eliminate this tradition but it continues to this day.

The current site of Fermanagh College ( now part of the South West College ) was the former Enniskillen Gaol, many people were tried and hanged here in the square during the times of public execution.

At times, the Khmer kingdom, the Siamese kingdom, and even Cholas kingdom tried to exert control over the smaller Malay states.

From 1945 through 1948 she was held in sundry American and French-run detention camps and prisons along with house arrest but although Riefenstahl was tried four times by various postwar authorities, she was never convicted through denazification trials either for her alleged role as a propagandist or for the use of concentration camp inmates in her films.

Riefenstahl tried many times ( 15 by her count ) to make films during the 1950s and 1960s but was met with resistance, public protests and sharp criticism.

Realizing his precarious condition, Davis tried several times to end his drug addiction, finally succeeding in 1954 after returning to his father's home in St. Louis for several months and literally locking himself in a room until he had gone through a painful withdrawal.

Davis was particularly fond of Rollins and tried several times, in the years that preceded his meeting with John Coltrane, to recruit him for a regular group.

Schools of subjectivism, objectivism and relativism existed at various times in the 20th century, and the postmodernists and body philosophers tried to reframe all these questions in terms of bodies taking some specific action in an environment.

Voted in 1992, it was tried three times ( in 1996, 1999 and 2001 )

After regaining control over the dissident governors, Abd-ar-Rahman III tried to conquer the remaining Christian kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula, attacking them several times and forcing them back beyond the Cantabric range.

During the Second World War Humphrey twice tried to join the armed forces, but was rejected both times because of a hernia.

In fact, historians have estimated that some form of typewriter was invented 52 times as thinkers tried to come up with a workable design.

In the second half of the century, Bishop Otto tried to resist the aims of the powerful countess Adelaide of Susa, who damaged the city several times.

Appius Claudius died in 273, but in extending the road a number of times, no one has tried to displace his name upon it.

During the early 20th century and especially during the Spanish Civil War, the monuments became more anti-clerical in nature and were often highly critical of the local or national governments, which in fact tried to ban the Falles many times, without success.

During his years at the Conservatoire, Ravel tried numerous times to win the prestigious Prix de Rome, but to no avail ; he was probably considered too radical by the conservatives, including Director Théodore Dubois.

They were removed four months later by a Catholic Wallon regiment, after which they tried several times between 1581 and 1582 to take the city of Lille, all in vain.

The Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific tried to merge four times, in 1896, 1901, 1927, and 1955.